My 5 year old is still in night nappies...

[2girls&1angelboy]

and has no sign of stopping and its driving me insane surely she should be starting to have at least a few dry ones every now and then.
when she was almost 4 she was having dry ones every night for a few months then all of a sudden she is wetting.

Any ideas on how i can get her dry???


We are now 5 nights dry!!!

[sunflowermummy]

every child is different..I know I have read many many times that children dont get full control of their bladders until 7-8yrs of age.....so she is still within that time frame.....

Apart from that, I really dont know to help out....

[Just Add Water]

I wouldn't let it stress you (or her)... go to the aisle in the supermarket and look at all the bedtime pants they have for sale, even going up to kids who are much older. They wouldn't sell them if there wasn't a demand for them :yes:

My nephew is 14 and has only recently stopped wetting the bed, his mother was 12 and my aunty was 15... we have a very different attitude to bed wetting because of this than most people. If it's the cost of the pull ups then you can get material night pants (I've just purchased some for Master 5). If you're interested pm me and I can tell you where you can get some.

We found that not wearing anything and having wet sheets is much harder for the kids to deal with than wearing bedtime pants. A friend of mine used to get her daughter to wear her undies on the inside of the pullups so they could tell if they were dry or not :D

[~BEXTER~]

Keiara will be 5 in December and is still in night nappies.

I wouldn't let it bother you like the day nappies they will do it when they are ready. :)

[MellyMumma]

I have a 5yr old and a 4yr old in night pants still :hair:. It costs me a fortune! I'm not sure if its pure laziness or what but dd1 was out of any kind of nappy by the time she was 2!! Lets hope dd4 takes after dd1!

[2girls&1angelboy]

thank u nice to know that im not the only one going thru it. :) she is wearing the pull ups, my brother still wet the bed at 16 so i should be used to it. im totally ignoring the wetness- is that what i shhould do when she used to be dry we gave her lots of cuddles etc no pressies just praise.

[Whispers]

Damit I grabbed a information booklet about this at the doctors yesterday and for the life of me can not find it.

My DD is 4 years old and still wets the bed, but apparently they can have a lack of something which make their bladder need to empty more often and you can get medication to fix that but they said to try a bed wetting alarm which will beep once any bit of urine gets on it therefore waking the child and they can finish in the toilet after a while some out grow other need to be medicated but they only suggest that if your child is becoming uncomfortable and embarrassed with the fact of bed wetting

[Just Add Water]

Melly - you can get night pants through BB - I'll send you the link on FB :D

As for praising the dryness, to be honest we don't really make a fuss. If DS walks out and declares that he's dry we'll say "Well done" or "Good for you" and that's it. But if he doesn't make a deal about it we don't. It's not like he's choosing whether or not to be dry. It sounds like you're doing all the right things... and if you're ever in doubt then just go look at those shelves - I always try and remind myself that no matter how special DS is to us, he's not that special to the companies that make them :laughing:

[Just Add Water]

Damit I grabbed a information booklet about this at the doctors yesterday and for the life of me can not find it.

My DD is 4 years old and still wets the bed, but apparently they can have a lack of something which make their bladder need to empty more often and you can get medication to fix that but they said to try a bed wetting alarm which will beep once any bit of urine gets on it therefore waking the child and they can finish in the toilet after a while some out grow other need to be medicated but they only suggest that if your child is becoming uncomfortable and embarrassed with the fact of bed wetting

My sister was fitted with one of those when she was younger... now as a mother of a 14 year old who has only recently stopped wetting the bed she says it's the worse thing my parents could have done for her - it broke her sleep when her body was not ready to wake and it made her even more self conscious.

[MellyMumma]

Melly - you can get night pants through BB - I'll send you the link on FB :D


Awesome, thanks!!

[Littlesunshinegirl]

Hi everyone, my girl is 3 years old and had been toilet trained for a years now. But she is a bed wetter. Both my patner and I were bed wetters. So I guess my girl will be a bed wetter too and I'm not too worry about it, becuase doctor said she wil outgrow it I hope.

[muminshock]

I haven't been on BH for a while but I thought I would come on to talk about exactly what this original poster has said!!

I'm not too worried about the night nappies, it'd be nice to have ONE child out of nappies, but it doesn't bother me that much. My DD would LOVE to wear knickers to bed and every now and then gets a little upset that she can't. Our main drama at the moment is my DH. He thinks we are being slack and need to start working on her and encouraging her to get up when she needs to wee. He reckons she's never going to learn to do it if we don't start teaching her. I'm trying to tell him it doesn't work that way but he's even starting to convince me that it does! I think I might get him to read this thread when he gets home :yes:

Thanks girls :thumbsup:

[2girls&1angelboy]

my lil girl has now been dry for 4 nights. no nappy pants just undies woke her the 1st two nights but the other two she has slept thru and been dry!!!

[IndigoJ]

I had to take medication at age 8 for it. I found that i dreamt i was actually on the toilet so that was why i did it. My aunty humiiated me everytime i did it, standing in the middle of a brisbane suburbia yard hosing mattress and hanging out sheets, with no undies on, she didnt let me have spare clothes if i wet my bed. It was a horrible thing to go through, i think the worst thing you could do is make them feel self concious about it. There were no pullups back then wither so i was made to wear xl nappies, i could never go to sleep overs either. It was horrible :(
ETA: it took two mths of medication for me to stop. Havnt had a problem since :)

I hope your LO grows out of it. I think the suggestion of putting undies on the inside of the pull ups sounds like a great idea, i always woke up when i felt wet.

[3'llhavetodo]

I had to take medication at age 8 for it. I found that i dreamt i was actually on the toilet so that was why i did it. My aunty humiiated me everytime i did it, standing in the middle of a brisbane suburbia yard hosing mattress and hanging out sheets, with no undies on, she didnt let me have spare clothes if i wet my bed. It was a horrible thing to go through, i think the worst thing you could do is make them feel self concious about it. There were no pullups back then wither so i was made to wear xl nappies, i could never go to sleep overs either. It was horrible :(
ETA: it took two mths of medication for me to stop. Havnt had a problem since :)

I hope your LO grows out of it. I think the suggestion of putting undies on the inside of the pull ups sounds like a great idea, i always woke up when i felt wet.
That's appalling... what was she hoping to achieve by doing this to you :no:.
DS 5 and DD almost 4 are both still in night nappies too as they always wake up very wet.
Mum said she got my brother to stay dry by sitting him on the toilet as she was about to go to bed. He wouldn't wake up, he's just wee and they'd put him back to bed.

[2girls&1angelboy]

I had to take medication at age 8 for it. I found that i dreamt i was actually on the toilet so that was why i did it. My aunty humiiated me everytime i did it, standing in the middle of a brisbane suburbia yard hosing mattress and hanging out sheets, with no undies on, she didnt let me have spare clothes if i wet my bed. It was a horrible thing to go through, i think the worst thing you could do is make them feel self concious about it. There were no pullups back then wither so i was made to wear xl nappies, i could never go to sleep overs either. It was horrible :(
ETA: it took two mths of medication for me to stop. Havnt had a problem since :)

I hope your LO grows out of it. I think the suggestion of putting undies on the inside of the pull ups sounds like a great idea, i always woke up when i felt wet.

:hugs: thats not good at all what was done to you. :hugs:

we are now on day 5 of dryness put her to bed with just undies every night no pull up etc. she is so proud of herself.

[mum_I'm_hungry]

My six-year-old is still in night nappies as well. We've tried getting her up several times per night to go to the toilet, restricting fluids in the early evening etc., but nothing seems to work. She has a slight developmental delay, but is usually only around 6 months to a year behind other kids, so I'm not expecting dryness anytime soon. I've stopped worrying about it, really...

[muminshock]

I though I'd share this with you as I found it really interesting. I have spoken to a nurse who specialises and runs a program for bed wetting at our children's hospital. She said:
Night time wetness not considered a problem until 7-8 years of age. It's likely to be hormonally out of her control. And I was also taking DD to the toilet when we went to bed which is actually not recommended. By doing this you are emptying their bladder before it becomes full so they never actually get to learn the sensation of a full bladder over night.

Who would have thought! I'm leaving it all alone now anyway. Got a couple of years before I need to worry :)